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Pax Romana’s Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue for Youth

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Since its inception Pax Romana has been un open forum for intellectual sharing and dialogue among different cultures, generations and professions. .(cf. Jacques Maritain, one of its founders in “The relationship between Christianity and civilisation”)

The first Pax Romana International Conference on this theme took place in 1960 ; in collaboration with UNESCO, and gathered Experts on the theme "The Present Impact of the Great Religions of the World upon the lives of the People in the Orient and Occident", in Manila - Philippines, from 2d to 9th of January of that year.
This Conference was attended by Experts of the 8 main religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Judaism, Islam, Protestantism, the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.
This conference, the first of its kind, was held in synergy with the UNESCO “Orient-Occident” Major Project launched in 1957 and as a follow-up to Dr Luther Evans, General Director’s participation in the Pax Romana World Congress in 1958 : he had then expressed his interest and promised his support for our initiative.
The spirit of dialogue of this Conference was then taken as one of the main guidelines for the work of the national federations and movements of both Pax Romana ICMICA and IMCS in the work of interreligious and intercultural dialogue.
Pax Romana will go on setting up “stages», on a yearly basis, with each a definite theme. In 2010 we concentrated around: “involvement in bringing cultures closer to become peacemakers”